Category: Life

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This week, I’ve been heavily re-developing my hobby project TTTO at home and at work, re-developing our CMS. It’s been fun and time passes very fast.

In the blink of an eye, Friday is here and now I feel I can play FFXI all day this Saturday without feeling guilty that I’ve wasted another week being unproductive.

As usual, so much to do, so little time. I’m considering buying Yomeishu to assist my busy life. Has anyone drank it regularly before?

And it’s been 4 years since I’ve started blogging.

So much has happened in the blink of an eye.

The things I’m proud of in 2007, the creation of The Tarutaru Times Online, with the help of friends, I planned and visited Japan alone and using my own money and reducing my FFXI addiction. Although now I’m addicted to another game, Monster Hunter Portable 2, I don’t know if it’s good or ending up back at square one. At least, I’ve begun catching up on anime and other interests.

Things haven’t been going well for me in FFXI. The thing that kept me addicted was the friends I have in-game. But when 2 groups of your friends don’t like each other, and then there’s nothing one can do because of language barrier, it kind of made FFXI stressful for me. :(

I spent the last few days of 2007 enjoying Monster Hunter 2 with friends instead of logging in to FFXI.

Anyway, enough of MMORPG talk!

I don’t know what I want to do for 2008. But I know for sure I want to increase my savings. Hopefully with these savings, I can afford a larger, more comfortable home for my family and myself. A home I can call my own and not some rented apartment from the government. A home with enough room for a large bookshelf for all my manga! Haha

I heard that a new condominium will be built on the empty plot of land behind AMK Hub. Though it’ll be a lot more expensive to buy a condo than a HDB apartment, that will be my first choice until I can confirm it’s price.

Ah… I just remembered I wanted to register for Japanese classes for 2008 but totally forgot about it. >_>

I was clearing my paid leave. I had about 6 days left this year, together with a free day given by my boss to everyone, and 2 public holidays, 4 weekend days, I was away from work for 13 days. :D

Thought I would spend most of my time in FFXI? Sorry, nope! It was Monster Hunter 2 instead. Surprisingly, I spent about 1 or 2 hours a day on FF, doing campaign battles and sky.

I also had other tasks like backing up and replacing a 140GB harddisk with dead sectors. I only lost a single video file which I was able to re-download. And this harddisk was full. With only less than 200MB of free space left, lol.

I replaced it with a Western Digital 250GB harddisk. Harddisks these days are so cheap! It costs only SG$109 (US $75) and comes with 16MB buffer. I was going to buy a 500GB one for around SG$330, which Storage Studio (a shop) recommends for 24/7 operation but it was sold out.

I also have plans to get a NAS (Network Attached Storage) with 2 500GB harddisks in mirror-raid next year for all my media files. Like I mentioned before, I’m not going to make any huge purchases this year because I believe it’s a bad year for me, financially.

After everything’s done, I have 80GB of free space which is filling up fast now thanks to bittorrent. :(

Of course, there are many other things that happened during these 13 days but isn’t interesting enough to blog about.

Anyway, I’m back to work now, it’s been busy and I’ve got so much spam emails (270 of them!) to clear this morning. And yes, I’ll try to blog about my Japan trip soon! >_<

Updated my previous entry on my Japan trip, scroll down to see it. I’ll try to be brief about it. Over time, I’ll blog about the next few days of my trip.

Sort of got over my huge loss. I didn’t feel anything when I lost my 60,000 yen silver FF7AC Cloudy Wolf earring (the picture in this link shows a pair, but it’s actually 1 in the box), which I bought while I was in Japan. I liked it a lot.

I sort of knew I would lose it when I found out it just clamps to your ear instead of going through the pierced hole in your ear. But I found that out only after the purchase. I wouldn’t have bought it if I knew it clamps on.

Sigh.

Thinking back, this year has been financially horrible for me. Keep falling sick and a huge chunk of my savings were, in a way, wasted on really unneccesary things. Until the next year comes, I’m not going to spend lots of money on anything unless it’s a neccessity.

Thanks to Monster Hunter 2 on the PSP, I got a few more friends hooked so now we’ve been meeting up regularly to hunt together. Didn’t have enough time to explore the new expansion in FFXI let alone level White Mage.

Thus, I hope I can clear and use my last 6 days of work leave to catch up on all the things I’ve been putting on hold. Recently, my 160GB harddisk had a CRC error reported by Utorrent which suggests that the harddisk has a physical defect. Now I need to backup 140GB worth of data and send it for replacement. :(